Walk-outs

How far are we from actually giving the proverbial finger to the businesses before they give it to us?
In the weeks before layoffs happen, why don't people just start walking out on deadline and not turning in stories? What are they going to do? Lay you off again? Make sure you don't work in this dead industry any more?
I know not getting the job done is a poor alternative, but at what point should everyone just revolt?
It is that bad right now.
Why not send a message to companies that you're not going to take it any more?

Would anyone here ever start such a movement with layoff/buyouts on their way?

You're going to have to have pretty strong convictions to walk out, because if you do, it's cause, and it's goodbye severance package, goodbye extended health benefits, goodbye whatever other things you managed to salvage from the situation.

You give this business the finger by leaving it. You take your passion, your "calling," your work ethic, your standards, your experience, your training, your context and your credibility with you, gone forever from their midst.

It will not save them, running off folks like you and me. It will only hasten their demise, by which time you will have this poison out of your system and be on the road not just to recovery but to a brighter and surely saner future.

I've never seen a work force of college graduates treated so shabbily and disrespected so thoroughly as the newspaper honchos treat journalists. They don't deserve us. My biggest disappointment is that so many of us still are willing to work for them, entirely on their terms. Meanwhile, the guy or gal at the next desk gets clobbered, even though the honchos can't carry that person's jock in any way beyond title and wealth.

I'm sorry, I could see the rationale behind walking out, I really can, but in the end you're only fucking yourself.

You've got to remember that just because you might be getting laid off in this industry, doesn't mean you don't still have to find employment elsewhere. Any employer worth working for is going to ask you why you left your last place of employment.

You give this business the finger by leaving it. You take your passion, your "calling," your work ethic, your standards, your experience, your training, your context and your credibility with you, gone forever from their midst.

It will not save them, running off folks like you and me. It will only hasten their demise, by which time you will have this poison out of your system and be on the road not just to recovery but to a brighter and surely saner future.

I've never seen a work force of college graduates treated so shabbily and disrespected so thoroughly as the newspaper honchos treat journalists. They don't deserve us. My biggest disappointment is that so many of us still are willing to work for them, entirely on their terms. Meanwhile, the guy or gal at the next desk gets clobbered, even though the honchos can't carry that person's jock in any way beyond title and wealth.

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If you think walking out is going to somehow change things for the better, you're ridiculously naive.

The powers-that-be either don't care about the experience and talent they're losing here, or they think their audience somehow won't notice and/or care. Either way, they'll keep on perpetuating this vicious cycle because it allows them to maximize their short-term profits, which keeps the shareholders and the execs happy. The rest is a problem for someone else and/or some other time.

Walking off the job in protest only saves them the trouble of buying you out or laying you off.